Ballon d'Or engagement report
@ballondor - 2.7M followers on X
Measured over 141 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 25, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 1.6K interactions against 2.7M followers, an engagement rate of 0.059%. Measured over 141 original posts, its engagement rate beats 62% of 20,444 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 95K times each, and 1.68% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.52% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 4.8 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 141 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 73% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 135K interactions, about 84x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #ballondor, #messi, #fcbarcelona.
Measured over 141 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 25, 2026. Recurring tags: #ballondor, #messi, #fcbarcelona.
Compared with accounts its own size
Ballon d'Or's engagement rate beats 62% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 10 of 10)). A percentile is spread evenly by construction, so 50 really is the middle of that group and 90 really is its top tenth.
On engagement per impression rather than per follower it beats 62% of the same group. When those two numbers disagree, the gap is about how far its posts travel rather than how people react to them.
Where this sits in the catalog
At 0.059%, Ballon d'Or sits above the 25th percentile of the 204,583 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.024% to 0.143%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.143% |
| 75th percentile | 0.677% |
| 90th percentile | 2.55% |
| 99th percentile | 82.4% |
This ruler is the whole measured catalog, not a size-matched group: it shows where the raw rate falls across every account we can measure, all of which are large. For a like-for-like comparison, read the size-band percentile above instead. See how the bands are built
Posting timing
This account posts most often around 16:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day of the week. The bars below are the catalog-wide pattern, with this account's own busiest slot marked. They do not show how this account performs at each hour: we keep one aggregate per account, not one per hour, so that measurement does not exist in our data.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00 UTC | -1% | 89K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 88K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 94K |
| 04:00 UTC | -5% | 76K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 75K |
| 06:00 UTC | -5% | 86K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 93K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 108K |
| 09:00 UTC | -4% | 124K |
| 10:00 UTC | -3% | 129K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 141K |
| 12:00 UTC | -3% | 154K |
| 13:00 UTC | -3% | 167K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 173K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 176K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 171K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 159K |
| 18:00 UTC | -2% | 149K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 141K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 131K |
| 21:00 UTC | 0% | 116K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 90K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 393K |
| Monday | +1% | 483K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 520K |
| Wednesday | -3% | 472K |
| Thursday | -2% | 430K |
| Friday | -3% | 447K |
| Saturday | +2% | 393K |
Formats this account uses
Its own posting mix on the left, and what each of those formats does across every account we track on the right. Only formats where the effect clears our publish test appear here, so an empty row is a format we could not measure rather than one that does nothing.
| Format | This account | Catalog effect | 95% interval | Accounts behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image or video | 100% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 73% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 100% of this account's sampled posts carry an image or video. Across the catalog, posts with an image or video run 111% above the same accounts' other posts.
- 73% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts, so a large share of this account's output sits in the weakest bucket we measure.
- Its average post runs 181 characters, which falls in the 180 - 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 180 to 280 characters match the same accounts' other posts almost exactly.
These are catalog-wide differences applied to this account's own posting mix, not a measurement of how each format performs for this account specifically. We keep one median per account, not one per format per account, so the second thing is not something this data can tell you.
Best tweets
- Sep 29, 202684x their median
1️⃣ day, 1️⃣ nominee 🇦🇷 Lionel Messi #ballondor https://t.co/LHI1NvR8WW
- Sep 11, 202655x their median
Kylian Mbappé reacts to the "Dictator" memes 😭 Find everything about him: https://t.co/6vZvjTg559 #ballondor #mbappe #realmadrid https://t.co/ErkO2LWyC2
- Sep 17, 202642x their median
THE LEGEND CONTINUES 🇦🇷✨ 39 years old. 100 Inter Miami goals. Another trophy lifted 🏆 The years go by. His relevance is eternal. Discover the trophy he won and the records he broke at ➡️ https://t.co/zhnSGAgMGP #ballondor #messi #intermiami https://t.co/CrJIhOwIxU
- Aug 31, 202636x their median
AN ETERNAL LEGACY 🇦🇷✨ From a young dream to absolute glory for his country. 🏆💙 THANK YOU for everything, Leo Messi! 🙏 🔗 Relive his historic international journey and his records on https://t.co/ZTFIacbATs #ballondor #messi #argentina https://t.co/ZgqCfriu0V
- Oct 6, 202635x their median
THE END OF A GLORIOUS ERA. 🇦🇷🤍 Today, Lionel Messi closes his legendary chapter with the Albiceleste. We can only say... THANK YOU, LEO. 🙏 Relive his best records with Argentina on https://t.co/QT90GkXYbE #ballondor #messi #argentina #leomessi https://t.co/QPdrZGpN4w
- Aug 30, 202634x their median
8-time Ballon d’Or winner still doing FORMIDABLE things at 39 years old. 🌕👑 4 goals. 1 assist. Pure magic in the MLS last night. ✨ These are the records achieved with this amazing performance ➡️ https://t.co/LpMa7Jtv9b #ballondor #messi #intermiami #mls https://t.co/0qL467flcv
- Sep 8, 202624x their median
Nominated for the 2026 Ballon d’Or ⬇️ @KMbappe @realmadrid @equipedefrance #ballondor https://t.co/GfGrfyQB2i
- Sep 27, 202621x their median
1️⃣ day, 1️⃣ nominee 🇫🇷 Kylian Mbappé #ballondor https://t.co/mwrO0i64SJ
- Oct 3, 202620x their median
1️⃣ day, 1️⃣ nominee 🇲🇽 Julián Quiñones #ballondor https://t.co/AKf4JqcnJM
- Sep 8, 202620x their median
OUR 2026 MEN'S BALLON D'OR NOMINEES! 🏴 Jude Bellingham 🇪🇸 Pau Cubarsí 🇪🇸 Marc Cucurella 🇫🇷 Ousmane Dembélé 🇨🇴 Luis Díaz 🇵🇹 Bruno Fernandes 🇧🇷 Gabriel 🇳🇴 Erling Haaland 🇲🇦 Achraf Hakimi 🏴 Harry Kane 🇬🇪 Khvitcha Kvaratskhelia 🇪🇸 Lamine Yamal 🇸🇳 Sadio Mané 🇧🇷 Marquinhos 🇦🇷 Lautaro Martínez 🇫🇷 Kylian Mbappé 🇵🇹 Nuno Mendes 🇦🇷 Lionel Messi 🇵🇹 João Neves 🇫🇷 Michael Olise 🇪🇨 Willian Pacho 🇲🇽 Julián Quiñones 🏴 Declan Rice 🇪🇸 Rodri 🇪🇸 Fabián Ruiz 🇫🇷 William Saliba 🇪🇸 Ferran Torres 🇫🇷 Dayot Upamecano 🇧🇷 Vinícius Jr. 🇵🇹 Vitinha
Ranked by total interactions across everything we have tracked for this account, which is a longer history than the 30-day window the rates above use. The multiple compares each post to this account's own median.
Recurring topics
The most frequent hashtags in the sampled posts. They describe what this account writes about; they are not a performance signal, and the catalog-wide breakdown on the hub shows how little hashtag count moves.
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Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 1.6K interactions against 2.7M followers, an engagement rate of 0.059%. Measured over 141 original posts, its engagement rate beats 62% of 20,444 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 95K times each, and 1.68% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.52% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 4.8 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 141 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 73% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 135K interactions, about 84x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #ballondor, #messi, #fcbarcelona.
- What is Ballon d'Or's engagement rate on X?
- Ballon d'Or (@ballondor) has an engagement rate of 0.059%, based on the median interactions across 141 original posts from the last 30 days against 2,712,471 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.059%, Ballon d'Or sits above the 25th percentile of the 204,583 accounts in this comparison. Those comparison accounts are all large ones, because our scanning cadence is weighted towards big accounts, so this is a ranking among peers of similar scale rather than a ranking across X.
- Does @ballondor have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 62% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts), which puts it in the middle of its size range group. Ranking inside a size band matters because engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly re-measure the follower count. It is a starting point for a look at follower quality, not a verdict on it.
- When does @ballondor post?
- Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 4.77 posts per day across the measured window.